Fence-post.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. HAMILTON AND WILLIAM GWINNUP, OF INDIANAPOLIS,

INDIANA.

FENCE-POST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 19, 1905. Serial No. 283,558.

the county of Marion and State of Indiana,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FencePosts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in fence-posts constructed of artificial stone or like material, such as a composition of cement or concrete, and is particularly constructed for use in vconnection with rail fences, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is provide a fence-post with suitable pockets or hangers o positely situated on the opposite sides of t e post for supportin the rails of the fence and which pockets Or angers are constructed so that rails of the fence may be readily removed and replaced. We attain these Objects by means of the fence-post illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a front elevation of our invention of a fence-post, showing the removable rails thereof. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, taken through the line A B. (See Fig. 1.) Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the rail-supporting pockets looking in the directionlof the arrow a. (See Figs. l and 4.) Fig. 4 is a similar detail view of the same, taken through th'e line O D, (see Fig. 3 5) and 'Fig 5, is a detail diagram view of a strip of metal cut to the required width of the wiresupporting pocket or hanger shown'in light lines wherethe metal is to be creased or bent into form.

The post l is preferably composed of concrete or some other mixture of cementand is preferably made rectangular in cross-section, with a larger base end, and the same is regularly tapered on its sides from its base to its top reduced or smaller end.

Along each side of the post l are arranged in vertical alinement the pockets or hangers l 2, wherein the ends of the rails 3 are removably tted and supported to be removable therefrom.` The pockets 2 are situatedA on and removably secured to the opposite sides of said post l by the securing-bolts 4.

The rail-supporting hangers or pockets 2 are each composed of a single strip of metal bent into form and have their base or connecting portions 2a, the opposing arallel vertical sides Z-b, the folds 2", and t e overlapping feet ends 2d. The folds 2 are each folded diagonally, as shown in dotted lines,

sume the position shown in dotted lines. (See Fig. 5.) The sides 2b are then folded on the creases S till the sides 2b are parallel. The overlapping feet ends 2d are then folded back or inwardly and at right angles to the faces of the sides 2b to lap one above the other to cause the bolt-holes 9 to register, as shown in Fig. 8. f

Having thus fully described this our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and desire to cover by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-

1. In a rail fence, the combination with a fence-post composed of artificial stone or cement, of a series Of rail-supporting pockets bent and folded into form, said pockets or hangers removably secured to the Opposite and each bolt situated to support a single opposing pair of pockets or hangers.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses. JAMES W. HAMILTON. WILLIAM GWINNUP. Witnesses:

THOMPSON R. BELL, FLORENCE GIMBEL.

to cause the overlapping feet ends Qdto asr or hangers composed of single strips of metal sides of said post and arranged in vertical l 

